Ornamental chain



April 14, 1. 925. 1,533,822

L. J. ANSHEN ORNAMENTAL CHAIN Filed Odt. 25, 1924 Mpg.

Patented Apr. 14, 1925.

LOUIS J. ANSHEIV, OF PROVIDENCE, RHQDE ISLAND.

ORNAMENTAL CHAIN.

Application filed October 25 .192 4. Serial No. 745,820.

7 To all whom. it may concern:

Be 1t known that I, LOUIS J. ANSHEN, a citizen of the United States, residing Providence. in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ornamental Chains. of which the following is a specification.

Hy invention relates to chains adapted for use in articles for personal adornment such as bracelets, girdles, and the like, and for other ornamental purposes.

The essential. objects of my invention are capacity for expansion and flexibility; freedom from lateral play of the links even when expanded; security and strength of parts; freedom from derangement of the springs; compactness; and simplicity of construction.

My invention consists in the means for producing the results specified substantially as hereinafter claimed.

In the accompanying drawings illustraiing the principle of this invention Figure 1 is a perspective view from the front, of a chain or strap embodying my invention,

Figure '2. a section on line 2-2 of Figure 1,

Figure 3. a the chain,

Figures 4- and l--l of Figure 3 spectively,

Figure 6, a section corresponding with that of Figure. l, showing the parts ex pai'ided, and I Figures 7 and detail inverted perspective views of the outer and inner members of the unit.

Similar characters of reference indicate similar parts throughout the views.

As illustrated, my chain or strap consists of a series of units indicated generally by 11) each con'lprising an oblong shell 11, sub

fragmentary rear elevation of sections taken on lines and of Figure 4 restantially rectangular in cross section conting of a front wall 12-, top and bottom walls 13, vertically directed flanges 1 1 upon the top and bottom walls. substantially parallel with the front wall, and provided at their inner edges, which are spaced from each other. with inwardly directed lips 15) provided at one end with depending projections 16 extending nearly to the front wall. Near each end of the top and bottom walls are perforations l7 adapted toreceive therethrough solid or tubular posts or rivets 18." In this. instance notches 2-0 in the lips I i/correspond in position with thepe'rforatrons liifor a like purpose. The flange ll with its lip 15 combine with the adjacent wall 13 to form a housing 23 separated from its companion housing by a space or guideway 2. j

In each shell or tube 11 is ,slidably inoiuited a connecting member 27 eompris.

ing an oblong plate 28 provided at the extremities of one end with rearwardly directed lugs 29, and having integral with the middle of the other end an arm provided with a rearwardly directed open loop 31 at its point of junction with the plate. This rearwardly extending arn' has upon its free end a flat laterally enlarged end portion 32 resting with its entire area against the plate 28 and terminatingin projectin'g portions 33 abutting against the lugs 29, all as shown in Figure 8.

Each plate 28 slides upon the inner face of the front wall 12 of its enclosing shell. with its side edges in contact with ..;.the.- top and bottom walls 13 thereof. A portion of that end of the slide with which the arm 30 is integral, which may be called theforard end, projects into the next adjacent shell and loosely surrounds the rearmost post 18 of the latter shell, The elevated portion of the looped arm 13 is a sliding lit in the guideway 25. \Vithin each housing 23 a helical spring 35 having one end abutting against one of the lugs 29 and its other end engaging the forward post 18 of the'enclosing shell. The lugs 29 space one end of the plate 28 from the front "and back walls'of the shell. while theother end of the plate spaced from these walls by the lips 15 and projections 16. i

In operation, a distension of the parts compresses the springs 35 and sepruiates the shells ll from each other, disclosing the plates' 28 of the connecting members whereby the chain presents from the front a substantially unbroken and ornamental surface. While the members 11 and 27 are usually precious plat-ed metal surface ornamentation may he added to liioth the shells l1 and the plate 28 if desired. I

It will be observed that the longitudinallvdisposed looped arms 30 movable in the guideways 25 tend to prevent any lat-- ill] eral play between the members 11 and 27:-

that lugs 29 and projections 16 have at snn-ilar effect upon the members in a forward or rearward direction, that during expansion a. smooth movement of the parts is insured: and that the shells 11 and-,gonnecting members 27 may each be formed from a Single blank, thus insiningtaeile and intv expensive construction.

1. Ion chain of the typeset lorth, a se iEFf of' connected units, each unit eolnpi'i'sing a vWall, housings on the 'wall pal'a'llell with each other, transversely (F sposed posts supported in the honsing's near their ends; a connecting, plate slid ahly engaging'the Wall.

lugs upon one end of the plate within the housings. a loop O D' tl'i? plate between the housings 'loesel} Sui-rounding a poet: of an adjaeent unit. and con'ipression springs in the housings engaging the lugs; s

Ina chain of the type set forth, a series of units, each unit comprising a front wall,

eonnecting the .top" and: bottom walls" neartheir onds-Ja slidahlje platef'enga ging. the

wall and the proieetionsg. lugs on: the plate enelosetl'hv the flanges and laps, a loop on i the plates-lid'ahly' engaging the'lip'sg and sp 'ings' engaging the: lnggo and} one 013 the posts:

In testimony whereof I have afiixe'd my slgnatme. 

